A film screening of Happily Ever After (2019, 37 minutes) followed by a Q&A with the Director of the film, Xiaopei He.
Six years after they married gay men, we revisit the same four lesbian women in Shenyang, Northeastern China. We learn how they have created their families with their same sex partners, gay husbands, children, their own parents as well as parents in laws. These innovative and intentional family formations invite the viewer to reflect upon mainstream ideas of what makes a family.
About Xiaopei He: "Hills trained me to be a shepherd and the Himalayas turned me into a mountaineer. A government job made me an economist while the women's movement converted me into a feminist. Participating in lesbian organizing in China helped me realize that people with disabilities, HIV positive women, sex workers and lesbians married to gay men are particularly oppressed and that their voices are mostly silenced. In 2007, I co-founded ‘Pink Space’, a NGO working with people who are marginalized due to their gender and sexuality. We use photos and films to enable people to tell their life stories, to gain power and to represent their desires and experiences." - Xiaopei He
Links to more work from the artist.
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